WFM - VP - Mumbai/Bangalore - Bengaluru / Bangalore, India - Stalwart management consulting

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    Job Description :

    Job Description:

    VP WFM- Bangalore or Mumbai

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    CTC- 75 LPA including 25% variable

    • Contact centre experience is must have
    • Candidates from Third party BPO experience
    • Excellent communication skills
    • Seasoned WFM candidate

    Kindly share the profile summary in below format covering all -

    • 22+ years of experience totally with 18+ years in WFM
    • Has been involved in execution of enterprise level global workforce management & Staffing solutions across Travel, Insurance, e-commerce, BFS, Retail, Telecom, Healthcare, S & L BPO operations domain
    • Skilled in all functions of Workforce management i.e. Forecasting, Capacity Planning, Scheduling, Real Time Queue Management, Dialer Management, MIS-Reporting and WFM System Admin for NICE/Aspect. Transitioning WFM Best Practice and Consulting of WFM Solutions for Revenue Optimization
    • Has been working with organization for the past 17 years
    • Currently at VP level reporting to SVP who in turn reports to corporate SVP and COO
    • VP for the past 13 months prior to which AVP for 6 years
    • 1 AVP, 3 SM and 2 group managers reporting directly with a total team size of 270+
    • Current location
    • Current CTC
    • Expectation -
    • Notice period -
    • Six Sigma Yellow belt, PMP certified

    Reports to: Head of the vertical

    Responsibilities:

    Strategic:

    • Develops, supports, and drives strategic objectives of the workforce management organization on behalf of multiple business units and in alignment with enterprise goals.
    • Forms effective partnerships with various contact center operations, business unit leadership, and corporate support functions to understand and address organizational staffing requirements.
    • Ensures development and execution of organizational and site level long term forecasts and workforce budgets.
    • Identifies technology needs related to areas of responsibility initiates and implements industry leading technology and process improvement projects.
    • Ensures development and continuous improvement of organizational report structure - supporting client, marketing, pricing, analytical and daily operations reporting requirements.
    • Ensures national contact center and other supported service operations achieve required service level, cost targets, and overall performance metrics through development and implementation of optimal recruiting and staffing processes.
    • Develops, communicates, and continuously assesses position requirements for direct reports coaches colleagues to improve individual and team performance against established metrics.
    • Identifies opportunities to enhance scheduling efficiency and increase colleague effectiveness in response to changing business needs and client segment requirements.
    • Communicates with executive management regarding long and short term forecasts, impact of procedural and process changes, and other staffing and operational effectiveness issues.
    • Initiates and implements enhanced workforce management practices for the organization including direction of multi-site service center workforce management functions, scheduling administration and provides support, direction, and development of direct reports.
    • Works effectively within a team based environment and maintains good internal and external client relationships.
    • Ensures organizational alignment through cooperative development of individual and departmental objectives with operations management team and provides individual and organizational feedback on performance on a continuous basis.

    Operational:

    Investor Satisfaction:

    • Ensure planning function works towards maximising revenue from operations
    • Give timely inputs to maximise revenue and optimise cost
    • Manage WFM function within the budget
    • Proactively reduce WFM cost
    • Leverage COE at low cost geographies to lower operating cost without compromising on output quality.
    • Provide budgetary inputs to the finance team
    • Actively participate in annual & quarterly budgeting process.

    Customer Satisfaction:

    • Ensure high eVOC / iVOC scores
    • Engage with clients / internal customers for value adds
    • Act as consultant for the clients / internal customers
    • Represent WFM during client visits
    • Showcase WFM capability to clients as and when required.
    • Provide geography specific inputs for new solution design.
    • Ensure that all new projects GO-Green from WFM perspective in the geography.

    Employee Satisfaction:

    • Ensure high team morale
    • Ensure development of second level of leadership
    • Ensure good work culture
    • Coach / mentor and upskill the team
    • Act as coach for conflict resolution within the team and cross functional teams
    • Promote Firstsource culture
    • Ensure learning and development of all team members

    Skills

    • Knowledge of automated workforce management tools ( indicative and not exhaustive list Verint, NICE , Avaya , Genesys , CUBS , VICIDial , Aspect, Microsoft Dynamics , Salesforce ) in a multi-site environment
    • Excellent knowledge of multi-channel service center processes and operations
    • Demonstrated skills with workforce management, reporting and executive level presentation, including Microsoft Office products
    • Excellent oral and written communication, including presentation skills
    • PC literate, including Microsoft Office products
    • Leadership/management/motivational skills
    • Behavioral flexibility and agility in managing multiple and conflicting priorities
    • Exceptional organizational skills
    • Excellent interpersonal skills
    • Excellent negotiation skills
    • Exceptional multi-tasking and prioritization skills
    • Ability to work in a team environment
    • Ability to meet or exceed performance competencies

    Key Performance Indicators:

    • Overall service delivery of WFM ( budgeting , planning , forecasting scheduling and capacity planning )
    • Quality of manpower planning interventions, both internally and with clients
    • 100% compliance to regulatory standards
    • Internal and external customer survey scores

    Success Profile

    Experience

    Critical:

    . Post graduate degree

    . 20+ years of contact centre related experience with at least eight years' experience in an executive leadership role

    . Proven experience in developing and implementing efficient workforce strategies

    . Hands on experience with complex project management

    Know-How

    Critical:

    . Through knowledge of technological frameworks and processes, ability to understand changing WFM landscape dynamics & translating them into actionable strategy

    . Strong understanding of Financial management (Pricing, P&L & Financials)

    . Budgets

    Desirable:

    . Knowledge of domain (Healthcare, BFSI, T&M, Communication Media Technology )

    Personal Attributes/Traits

    . Consultative

    . Resilient

    . Decisive & Action oriented

    . Achievement oriented

    . Creative

    . Socially confident

    . Eager to learn

    Competencies

    . Business Foresight -Ability to strategize & demonstrate deep business insight that helps identify & develop strategic opportunities

    . Influencing stakeholders

    . Managing Transformation - Ability to work and lead transformations in a dynamic environment

    . Fostering partnerships with internal and external stakeholders

    . Working across boundaries

    . Driving Excellence

    . Leading Teams

    Key Skills :

    • Wfm
    • Rta